Chapter 10:
The bell rang. The
three friends headed for lunch. They grabbed their trays and lined up. When it
was their turn, the lunch lady put slimy green stuff onto their plates.
They wrinkled
their noses.
“Gross! What is
this stuff?” They walked to their table quietly. They looked miserably at their
plates. Gwen poked her food. It was disgusting. They threw their lunches away.
“From now on, I’m
going to bring a lunch from home!” said Tim.
As they were
walking down study hall, Brittany
knocked them down.
“Ooops! How
clumsy of me. Sorry! You were right under my nose and I couldn’t see you!” she
said meanly. As she walked past them, Mandy whispered, “Well, at least I have a
real nose.” Gwen and Tim snickered. Brittany
turned around
angrily. Her friends punched Mandy, Tim, and Gwen hard in the face. They ran
away fast, giggling hard and clutching their sides.
“Ow! That
hurt!” Mandy said. Tim’s nose was bleeding, Gwen’s lip was bleeding, and
Mandy’s ear had a big scratch that was bleeding down her face.
“We’d better
go to the nurse,” Tim suggested, looking at them.
They
trudged to the Ms. Lopez’s office.
“Hello, children! Great to see you again!
What seems to be the trouble?” She asked calmly, ignoring their wails.
“We just
got…” Gwen’s voice trailed off. If she told on Brittany
, would she do the same thing? Maybe
worse? Apparently Tim and Mandy were thinking along those same lines.
“We fell
down on the bricks outside lining the street on the way to math class.
We… err…” Mandy said, hesitating.
“We tripped
over each other. Mandy fell over a rock, Gwen tripped over her, and I followed
suit and got a nosebleed,” Tim finished simply.
Gwen and
Mandy beamed at him proudly.
By this
time, Gwen was starting to feel dizzy.
“Can we please
get a move on, then?” She asked impatiently.
“Oh! Right then!”
Ms. Lopez said foolishly. She mopped them up, stuck Band-Aids on their wounds,
and ushered them out.
“Have a nice
day!” She yelled as she closed the door. They were walking to math class when Gwen
spotted it.
“Hey, guys!”
She shouted at them. (She had stopped but Mandy and Tim hadn’t noticed and had
kept going.)
“Look at that
van! It’s so pretty!”
It was a ‘70’s
van, all rainbow and a picture of a man doing the disco. Underneath him was a
name, but it was too hard to read. It looked like ‘Sheeba Dance Co.’
Mandy and Tim
gasped in horror, running fast towards Gwen, but not fast enough to save her
from the chubby hands swooping down and dragging her into the van. Gwen uttered
a loud scream. The grubby man put his hand around her neck, pushing down, and
Gwen’s body went limp. She half-screamed.
Too bad
that wasn’t enough. Too bad it wasn’t enough to save her from the horror she
would soon face.
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